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poverty-stricken

adj.为贫穷所困恼的,非常贫穷的

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poverty-stricken


adj affected by poverty(1); extremely poor 贫困不堪的; 极度贫穷的
*poverty-stricken families, homes, housing 一贫如洗的家庭、缺衣乏食的家、四壁萧然的房屋.

poverty-stricken


'poverty-.stricken
adj
extremely poor
 poverty-stricken families
1. But divorce destroys the stability, security, and continuity that children need: it results in poverty for many women and children; it damages the natural link between father and children and replaces it with one of regulated, arranged visits;
    但是离婚摧毁了孩子所需要的稳定感、安全感、整体感,造成了很多妇女儿童的贫困,破坏了父亲与子女间的自然联系,代之以人为安排的定期探视。

2. What is the relationship of crime to poverty?
    犯罪与贫穷有什么关系?

3. Work banishes those three great evils : boredom , vice, and poverty.(Voltaire , French philosopher )
    工作撵跑三个魔鬼:无聊、堕落和贫穷。 (法国哲学家 伏尔基泰)

4. This growing poverty in the midst of growing poverty constitutes a permanent menace to peace.
    这种在贫困不断增长中增长着的贫困, 构成了对和平的持久威胁.

5. The aim was to look like street people and to observe what difference that made in the way other people responded to us — whether the appearance of poverty would invite prejudice on us.
    我们的目的是为了让自己看上去像漂泊街头的人,以观察别人对我们会有何不同反应——贫穷的外表是否会招致对我们的歧视。

6. He equates poverty with misery.
    他认为贫穷就是不幸.

7. He was sent to prison for failing to pay his debts and died in poverty in 1836.
    他因无力还债而被捕入狱,最后于1836年在贫困中死去。

8. As an apprentice the boy lived a life of grinding poverty.
    这孩子当学徒时过着贫困难熬的生活。

9. As the parents had five children, life was a perpetual struggle against poverty.
    家里已有5个孩子,全家人常年在贫困中挣扎。

10. And when the middle of the afternoon came, from being a poor poverty-stricken boy in the morning, Tom was now rolling in wealth.
    汤姆早上还是身无一物的苦孩子,到了半下午成了大财主。

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